Brother and sister team Martha and Ralph Fiennes collaborate together on this opulent Russian epic.

Eugene Onegin (Ralph Fiennes) is a restless but dashing Russian aristocrat whose boredom with life often results in self-indulgent and shallow actions. He meets, and bewitches Tatiana (Liv Tyler) who not only falls in love with him, but professes this, an act not acceptable for women in those times. Initially he refuses of her, but this is act that sets forth a series of events that over many years culminate in tragedy and thwarted love....